Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in early 2024, a Southwest Research Institute-led team identified electrons with ...

An artificially colored view of Jupiter as seen in ultraviolet light ... of mixing generated by a vortex higher up in the planet's ionosphere. These dark UV ovals also appear periodically at ...

Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact ... This presented a challenge, because of Triton's intense ionosphere, which is the last layer of the atmosphere before space begins.

Callisto (left) and Jupiter (right). Credit: Corey J. Cochrane, NASA/JPL-Caltech. Researchers re-examined Galileo's data using advanced statistical techniques and computer models. They found that ...

A Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX earlier this month has made a temporary hole in Earth's ionosphere, American space physicist Jeff Baumgardner has claimed. Falcon 9, a reusable two ...

a Southwest Research Institute-led team identified electrons with energies enhanced by processes in the region connecting the moon to Jupiter’s ionosphere, called an Alfvén wing. A paper ...